A practical look at how play therapy can promote mental health wellness in children and adolescents
Revised and expanded, The Therapeutic Powers of Play, Second Edition explores the powerful effects that play therapy has on different areas within a child or adolescent’s life: communication, emotion regulation, relationship enhancement, and personal strengths. Editors Charles Schaefer and Athena Drewes–renowned experts in the field of play therapy–discuss the different interventions and components of treatment that can move clients to change.
Leading play therapists contributed to this volume, supplying a wide repertoire of practical techniques and applications in each chapter for use in clinical practice, including:
* Direct teaching
* Indirect teaching
* Self-expression
* Relationship enhancement
* Attachment formation
* Catharsis
* Stress inoculation
* Creative problem solving
* Self-esteem
Filled with clinical case vignettes from various theoretical viewpoints, the second edition is an invaluable resource for play and child therapists of all levels of experience and theoretical orientations.
عن المؤلف
CHARLES E. SCHAEFER, Ph D, RPT-S, is Professor Emeritus of
Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. Dr.
Schaefer has written or edited over fifty-five professional books,
many on the topic of play therapy. He cofounded the Association for
Play Therapy in 1982, which currently has over 6, 000 members, and
now serves as Director Emeritus for the organization.
ATHENA A. DREWES, Psy D, MA, RPT-S, is the Director of
Clinical Training and the APA-Accredited Internship at Astor
Services for Children & Families, a multiservice nonprofit
agency in New York. She is past director of the Association for
Play Therapy and serves on the editorial board of the International
Journal of Play Therapy.
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